The “sanitized” part of the airport is between the security checkpoint and the gate. It’s where everyone there not working for the airport or security is assumed to have a boarding pass and has been cleared to be getting on a plane. Some airports, such as Chicago-O’Hare, have the grand majority of their cafés, shops, [...]
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently in Germany. I started with several days in Munich, and then a week in Germany, which is starting to draw to a close. This isn’t my first time overseas before, nor my second, and the mere fact of being out of the US no longer holds luster [...]
(On the topic of new software versions in MacOSX Lion…) MattE: On the downside, the system Emacs is still Emacs 22. dzuwenden: i guess second-class editors get second-class treatment MattE: Hold your tongue, young man! dzuwenden: i guethh thecon clath editorth get thecon clath tweatment Well played, David, well played…
I spent most of my waking hours this weekend trying to convince Emacs that it really can be the center of my networked life. This is my story. I first setup org-mode. It’s a great combination of both Evernote and Omnifocus, with note-taking built right in with task management. This is is pure elisp and [...]
While working, I’m involved in a lot of lone-wolf projects with multiple moving parts and different people coming into the orbit of my projects at different times. It’s rough keeping things organized, and for those of you who know me personally, organization is not one of my strong suits. For the benefit of others like [...]
There has got to be a way to run the cables under my desk in a manner that doesn’t look like ass. I just haven’t found it yet, apparently.
…I told you so. Engineering matters.
I had some technical thing here I had written a few hundred words about, but I completely wasn’t into it. What does keep my attention long enough is faith. Not “Faith” as Religion, but small-f faith. About a year ago, I was in the process of finishing up my tenure as a research programmer at [...]
I’ve been programming professionally now since 2007. The one thing that still causes me problems is starting fresh on something. Fred Brooks once wrote: The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. The biggest problem I’ve had [...]
In my professional life, I’ve had two software development jobs so far. One has been an academic programming job, and the other being a mobile developer for SpiderOak (check it out, I think we’re really cool, and so should you: